Cinematography Essay

Any critic, myself included, will tell you that M. Night Shayamalan should’ve been the best filmmaker of his generation, but somewhere along the line he changed. His earliest films are some of the best pieces of filmmaking I’ve ever seen. He came out swinging with the classic film ‘The Sixth Sense’, a film many revere as the most perfect film under his belt. He then followed up with ‘Unbreakable’ and ‘Signs’, two more films that were the nearest to perfection they could’ve possibly been. That’s the

Skeeter walking into her mother's room to ask her about Constantine as she needs the story for her book. Her mother tries to cover up what had happened and it doesn’t go down well with Skeeter. Tate uses many things like dialogue, characterisation, cinematography and theme, to develop the scene, that relates back to other references in the film. In this scene the purpose is to show us what has really happened to Constantine. This is expressed to us through dialogue and other techniques. But the dialogue

First, I’m going to discuss about the cinematography of the film. There is a lot of exaggeration to dramatize as a purpose to make the film more interesting, but it resulted as making the opposite reaction. One of the elements it’s for instance the music; it is very disturbing and one of the worst thing in the movie. It always comes when they try to put a lot of suspense when something big is happening in the plot, for example when Dominique slaps Roark with a riding crop, the over dramatic and high

What techniques does the director, Danny DeVito, use in the film ‘Matilda’ to illustrate that the character, Ms Agatha Trunchbull, is evil and malicious (mean)? The film ‘Matilda’ was directed by Danny DeVito and was released in 1996. The director uses multiple film techniques to depict Agatha Trunchbull as an evil and malicious character. These techniques include a range of different angles, low key and bottom lighting as well as an out dated sense of style and a variety of diegetic sounds Firstly

Citizen Kane has long been regarded as a cinematic masterpiece and one of the greatest movies ever made. One look at the scene “Thatcher Taking Young Charles”, and you can see exactly why. The storytelling style of this film is a “successful fusion of the flashier devices of 1930s films, and techniques adapted from radio, theater, and prose narrative. “There is pro not a single device in Citizen Kane that cannot be found in earlier films, but Citizen Kane synthesizes elements of various traditions

From Edward Scissorhands to Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, director Tim Burton has been captivating audiences for over 30 years. One can agree that Mr. Burton has an uncommon way of portraying things, which allows him to twist a viewer's emotions. His feature films such as Edward Scissorhands, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Alice in Wonderland are some of the best examples. Throughout his films, director Tim Burton executes all cinematic techniques successfully; the involvement of sound

Formal context is a big part of why movies are how they are. In Double Indemnity (1944) clip, by Billy Wilder, there are many formal context elements that are important as to why the choices are made during scenes. Some of these are the types of shots, camera movement, lighting, and the mise-en-scene. This paper analyzes the five shots in the two minute and thirty three second scene in depth. The prologue shot is forty four seconds, which is a long take. It starts with a tall, dominant character

The Crucible, a movie directed by Nicholas Hytner, was critically acclaimed and earned several awards. It received an Academy Award nomination for best screenplay based on material previously produced or published, a BAFTA award for best-adapted screenplay, and Golden Globe awards for supporting actor and actress in a motion picture. In Empire’s review, they say, “In this almost perfect screen adaptation, the lingering question is the most important one: what caused such madness?” This movie adaptation

Amores Perros and City of God each have their own technique of filming its narrative that draws viewers in immediately. Both films chose not to portray easily recognizable tourist or popular areas of the city that would allow the audience to distinguish exactly what city the film took place in plays an important role (Chetin, 2016). The use of innovative camera techniques utilized within both the films have a significant impact in the films success in appealing to a global transnational audience

Almost every piece of cinema seeks to give the viewer an understanding by intricately assembling shots in a coherent, and a sometimes muddled, manner; the techniques used in editing places various shots in purposeful sequences, to emphasize certain relationships between shots. The shots can be arranged smoothly and logically, or shift abruptly from shot to shot; different methods of the aforementioned arrangement of shots are utilized in either discontinuous or continuous editing. Sherlock Jr. and